Lessons from the Shutdown

©2019 DrKate

Arrests are glorious, but conviction is the key.

The recent partial government shutdown over the failure to fund the border wall may have been a type of “Good” Government Shutdown” that was discussed by the President over a year ago, written about here, and discussed in the video below.  Remember the partial shutdown would not have happened if former Speaker Paul Ryan had managed to get the appropriations bills passed when the Republicans had the House.

Rather than seeing the reopening of government for three weeks as a cave-in to democrats, this video prompts you to take the “long view”–which is the level that President Trump is operating on–and understand the information that has been collected during this period, and the background information he now has to begin downsizing government during the next “good government shutdown”.  This is another way of draining the swamp, by eliminating its enablers and operatives in government agencies.

But when the TSA federal agents or others called in sick, they went AWOL, both a signal to get rid of certain individuals but also whether the federal government should be staffing the TSA or privatizing it at some places?  So, how many airline crashes would you allow to harm citizens before you reopened the government without the wall funding? Compassion has a place in leadership even with a grander plan.

Another value of taking the long game view of this is central to securing the conviction of the criminals who have been publicly identified–Clinton, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Huma, Obama, Yates, Strozk, McCabe…and a cast of thousands.  Arrests are glorious, but conviction is the key.

How do you catch corruption, indeed treason,  when the agencies that are involved in investigating and prosecuting it, and the judges giving the opinions, are corrupt to the core themselves?  Over 30 people have been fired and allowed to or forced to be retired from the highest echelons of the FBI and DOJ.  The President has filled over 80 vacancies in the judiciary system, two Supreme Court positions, and just submitted 51 more names for judicial appointments, nearly 1/3 of the judiciary.  The more than 180 positions were left open by Obama for Clinton; now President Trump has the job–and the Senate–and is getting it done, despite the delay tactics.

Everything our President does is strategic, and to be sure his (our) enemies are throwing everything at him (us) that they have.  By working a strategy that is at time excruciatingly long to us, Trump both exposes our enemies publicly but also forces them to expend their ammunition—the tricks they have up their sleeve to derail our President’s plans to wrest control of our country away from the globalists.

Time to force their hand.

What is their next “ammo” to expend?

• the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg? (aka, some believe she is already dead or close to it…if so, can they just let her go in peace?!?)
• no wall funding (again)?
• the fight and delay over the next Supreme Court nominee?  (Dems have tee-ed up abortion, Catholics, race, hate in preparation)
• tanking of the economy? What if you learned that Trump is actually in charge?

Regarding the next Supreme Court nominee, it is critical to understand they need to delay any new Supreme Court  confirmation until January 2020, when they can invoke the “Biden Rule” that prevents such deliberation during a presidential election year. So they must prop up Ruth Bader Ginsberg so she can be at the SOTU.

Let’s look at the border wall, the “physical barrier” that works which we have funded construction of for foreign countries all over the world but not ours. You know what that means, right?  It is more lucrative for our Congress to launder US taxpayer money through other countries than in the U.S. because our wages are higher. But I digress.

The key issue that no one wants to discuss is that President Trump can declare a national emergency right now and use the military personnel, budget and expertise to rapidly build the wall.   The invoking of a declaration of national emergency is not an executive order that can be challenged in the lower courts.  Any challenge goes immediately to the US Supreme Court, and the facts and law are on America’s side.

But what they don’t want to talk about is the issue of Posse Comitatus , which prohibits the use of US military forces–except the marines–to enforce domestic laws within the United States.  It can only be suspended “under conditions of rebellion or invasion”–like what is occuring at our southern border.  Trump could use the declaration of a national emergency to waive Posse Comitatus and Habeus Corpus, enabling the military to enforce our immigration law at the border, or declare Martial Law as required to address our border security which would also activate the National Guard.

The larger strategy, long-term view is essential to our ability not to be temporarily blindsided by emotions of “he’s caving!”, when we should search for the larger strategic goal and remain calm.  Only then can we know both if and when to act, rather than acting-out.  Its part of the Art of War, and, the Art of the Deal.